jmacsgurl1991's Personal Name List

Wilder
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
From an English surname meaning "wild, untamed, uncontrolled", from Old English wilde.
November
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: no-VEHM-bər, nə-VEHM-bə, no-VEHM-bə
From the Latin word novem, meaning "nine". November was the ninth month of the Roman calendar before January and February were added around 713 BC. It is now the eleventh month of the year.

This is the name of one of the main adult female characters in Catherynne M. Valente's adult fantasy novel "Palimpsest" (2009). In the novel November remembers having read a book called "The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making" when she was a child, and the heroine of that book was called September. Valente later wrote that book as a crowd-funded work. It became the first volume in her bestselling "Fairyland" series.

Meade
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: MEED
From an English surname that indicated one who lived on a meadow (from Middle English mede) or one who sold or made mead (an alcoholic drink made from fermented honey; from Old English meodu).
Egypt
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: EE-jipt
From the name of the North African country, which derives from Greek Αἴγυπτος (Aigyptos), itself probably from Egyptian ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ meaning "the house of the soul of Ptah", the name of the temple to the god Ptah in Memphis.
Dempsey
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: DEMP-see(English)
Transferred use of the surname Dempsey.
December
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: dis-EM-bər, DEE-səm-bər
Derived from the Latin word decem, meaning "ten". December is the twelfth month on the Gregorian calendar. This name is used regularly in America, mostly on females.
Danger
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
From the English word "danger" meaning "liability to exposure to harm or risk; an instance or cause of liable harm; or ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm". From the Middle English daunger 'power, dominion, peril', ultimately derived from the Latin dominus 'lord, master'.

Its usage may be due to the popular saying 'danger is my middle name'.

Cypress
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: American (Rare)
Pronounced: SIE-pris
From the English word cypress, a group of coniferous trees. Ultimately from Greek kuparissos.
Crimson
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Arrow
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: AR-o, ER-o
From the English word arrow, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *h₂érkʷo- "bow, arrow".
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